Hacker News: jonty

New comment by jonty in "Payphone Go"

jonty — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:06:15 +0000

See my comment elsewhere in this thread...

New comment by jonty in "Payphone Go"

jonty — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:03:55 +0000

We actually ran something similar in the UK a couple of years ago but had to shut it down due high costs.

However we recently figured out how to do it in a way that won't bankrupt us, so keep your eyes peeled over the next few weeks...

https://payphone.team

New comment by jonty in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

jonty — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:08:25 +0000

Courtsdesk are rather misrepresenting this situation.

Quoting from an urgent question in the House of Lords a few days ago:

> HMCTS was working to expand and improve the service by creating a new data licence agreement with Courtsdesk and others to expand access to justice. It was in the course of making that arrangement with Courtsdesk that data protection issues came to light. What has arisen is that this private company has been sharing private, personal and legally sensitive information with a third-party AI company, including potentially the addresses and dates of birth of defendants and victims. That is a direct breach of our agreement with Courtsdesk, which the Conservatives negotiated.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-02-10/debates/037...

Dr Matthew Garrett v Dr Roy Schestowitz and Anor

jonty — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:37:13 +0000

Article URL: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025/3063

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45992403

Points: 113

# Comments: 96

New comment by jonty in "Electromechanical Lunar Lander"

jonty — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:28:02 +0000

Iain Sharp has built two physical Lunar Lander games, one of which is on permanent exhibition at the Under The Pier Show in Southwold, UK: https://www.underthepier.com

* 2009: https://lushprojects.com/lunarlander/

* 2022: https://lushprojects.com/lunarlandermk2/

He just built an absolutely beautiful mechanical version of Flappy Bird: https://lushprojects.com/appybird/

Unfortunately I can't find any video of it running, but there's a picture here: https://oldbytes.space/@rc2014/112557511719828847

Every Webcam in the Path of the Eclipse

jonty — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 18:51:53 +0000

Article URL: https://jonty.github.io/2024_eclipse_webcams/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39972615

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jonty in "Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones"

jonty — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 01:57:14 +0000

I've always been a fan of the https://everytimezone.com interface, which seems like it may have been acquired at some point. Still works brilliantly though!

New comment by jonty in "So this guy is now S3. All of S3"

jonty — Thu, 04 May 2023 21:38:43 +0000

This is the second time one of my posts has caused issues for the chaos.social admins. I am so, so sorry.

The hacker news DDOS is real.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34691489

New comment by jonty in "U-Bahn station in Berlin is decorated with radioactive uranium glazed tiles"

jonty — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 13:32:30 +0000

This is my toot, but the credit (and possibly the link) should be to @gigabecquerel: https://chaos.social/@gigabecquerel/109818433760462038

There are other stations on the U-Bahn with uranium tiles too, you can find them with the crowdsourced Safecast radiation map: https://map.safecast.org/?y=52.5002&x=13.4852&z=13&l=0&m=9

New comment by jonty in "Raspberry Pi hired an ex-cop and people are pissed"

jonty — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:53:44 +0000

> Liz Upton, Raspberry Pi’s cofounder and chief marketing officer, told BuzzFeed she believes that much of the issue stems not from the hiring of the former police officer who admitted to using Raspberry Pis for covert surveillance, but instead from a picture the account posted to Mastodon a day earlier showing pigs in blankets. “We didn’t put a content warning on it, because we don’t put a content warning on meat,” Upton said. “There were quite a few people who tried to start dogpiling on that.”

New comment by jonty in "Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)"

jonty — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:22:40 +0000

Acquisition was 2007, radio shut down in 2014. CBS was hands-off for a long time but you know how this story goes.

New comment by jonty in "Nike.com's robots.txt"

jonty — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:39:21 +0000

I wrote this! Of all the easter eggs I've hidden its still my favourite.

Wired even wrote an awful article about it at the time: https://www.wired.com/2010/08/robot-laws/

Absolutely delighted people remember it 12 years later.

New comment by jonty in "Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone"

jonty — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:29:46 +0000

Regret to inform you that it almost certainly isn't a bug - the flash died. It's unrecoverable.

Large numbers of pixel 3/3xl's have started dying in the last year and it looks like it's the flash wearing out on all the early adopter/heavy user devices. This happened to me too.

New comment by jonty in "Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images"

jonty — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:16:58 +0000

Actually I use FAST keypoint detection, which is used to repeatably find "good" points for tracking using computer vision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_from_accelerated_segm...

https://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/py_t...

New comment by jonty in "Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images"

jonty — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:52:36 +0000

I made something similar that runs in the browser using your webcam, mostly to visualise tracking keypoints.

It works best if you're in a well-lit place.

* https://github.com/Jonty/triangulator

* https://jonty.github.io/triangulator/

New comment by jonty in "Git implemented in Rust"

jonty — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 11:10:26 +0000

If you're interested in this, you may enjoy "Building Git" by James Coglan - a comprehensive book that takes you through reimplementing git in Ruby.

https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

New comment by jonty in "Using Slack through an IRC client"

jonty — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 01:17:55 +0000

That is exactly what IRCCloud does.

New comment by jonty in "The Lounge – Modern cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client"

jonty — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 23:40:09 +0000

You're looking for https://www.irccloud.com

Live slit-scanning using your webcam

jonty — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:41:12 +0000

Article URL: https://slitscan.space

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17464695

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

TiLDA Mkπ: The Hackable Conference Badge That Needs Your Help

jonty — Wed, 18 May 2016 14:23:15 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.emfcamp.org/post/144514906298/tilda-mk%CF%80-the-hackable-conference-badge-that

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722145

Points: 20

# Comments: 0